Florals and Landscape Paintings by Christine
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STICKY-NOTE:. Please note I am suspending my commission work until further notice. Other outside personal issues mean that new paintings will not be forthcoming for a while. I do not yet know when I will have sufficient time to get started again on new work. I will try and keep these newspages updated but new pictures will be somewhile in materialising.
August 29th. New acrylic painting online, on the main Paintings page; "Autumn Impressions". This is a bit of a one-off work. I have been involved with looking after a sick family member, so my available time to paint is very little. Creating a new work from scratch is taking a long time, so I decided to carry out an experimental piece involving techniques other than brushwork or a meticulous detailed approach. See what you think.
August 24th. After a delay of a couple more days, the website has finally transitioned ok to its new hosting provider. I have set up email contact via my co.uk address, only because it has taken time to carry out the changes. My old address, salesinfo at (domain), will be re-instated over the next couple of days; but for now, access and contact are in place again.
August 22nd. If you've been trying to access this website over the last two days or so, and failed, it's because I have now moved everything to a new UK-based hosting company. The nameservers were changed on Friday 20th and it takes a few days to get things rolling again. Nothing on the website has changed.
August 5th. In preparation for moving to a UK-based web hosting company, I have slowly begun to clean up some of the web pages on this site. The front page now has a new introductory slide-show, for example. While my painting time is extremely short, I am going to get everything ready for the transition, which will occur during late August/early September. There may be a brief downtime period when the name-servers are changed but I will announce that when the time comes.
July 21st (again) . I have amended the web pages to emulate Internet Explorer 7, so that users of IE8 should now see the correct rendering for each page. This is the sort of thing that creates extra work when you're both the painter and the website controller. All other browsers (should) work fine.
July 21st. While carrying out some coding updating on the Index page, I realised that viewers using Internet Explorer 8 are seeing a distorted view of my home-page, with the navigation bar pushed towards the centre. All other IE browsers and Firefox appear to be presenting my home-page correctly. Therefore I will have to make amendments to the appearance; which will take a little while, since I am busy painting. If you are using IE8 and have noted problems on other pages of this website, please let me know.
July 14th. New small oil painting, "Serenity" online on the main Paintings page. Bit busy at the moment, commission ongoing and two new canvases as well.
July 3rd. New painting "Blue Summer" now online on the main Paintings page.
June 20th. I'm working on a 32 x 16 inch oil painting at this time. As well as that, I am mentally planning another video demo for the UK site. My plans to merge the two websites are still in place, especially since the $/£ exchange rate is very unfavourable at the moment. If it is still like that by late September then that decision will hold.
June 10th. Several lucky breaks in available timing have allowed me to finish my larger picture much earlier than envisaged. It is now posted online on the main Paintings page. I have also uploaded a small mini-painting to the Smaller paintings page.
June 6th. I'm now working on a 24" square canvas, plus some smaller designs. The large one will not be ready for a few weeks yet, but it is coming along nicely. Having taken most of May off from canvas painting, I prepared to start again at the beginning of this month, only to take a heavy fall and jar my wrist (and the rest of my bones in the process). That is now settling down, so I can concentrate more. Since the last post here, our weather has varied between extremely hot and woolly-jumper temperatures....the garden flowers don't know whether they are coming or going....but today is dry and fairly bright. I have added a new pdf file at the UK website on the free downloads section, covering my production of small poppy painting in oil-pastels. I am getting to like these pastels; but there's a lot more experimenting to be done.
May 25th. The hot weather here in the UK has been rather stifling for sitting outside and drawing anything. Today is cooler, however, so I should manage to get some line drawings of tulips done, before the petals start dropping off. Flowers are more in mass now; it has been a long wait this year, at least two to three extra weeks, after the extremely cold winter.
May 19th. Small mini-canvas acrylic painting of a pansy, on the Smaller paintings page.
May 12th. Further artwork on the Smaller Paintings page; "Mauve and Yellow Pansies", oil pastel.
May 2nd. Another little oil-pastel added to the Smaller paintings page, of Chatsworth House and grounds, England. I have not as yet decided whether to frame some of these smaller works; I want to get some more done first, before thinking about framing.
April 29th. A couple of additions to the Small Paintings page; they are not for sale. While taking a break from canvas paintings, I'm exploring my pastels more, especially the oil-pastels, which is the only medium I've never spent any proper time with. The UK market is still into huge canvas abstracts. I feel that both my websites have enough middle-sized work on show for now. There is much to be said for the small picture; it costs less to produce, uses fewer materials and although it commands a lower price, it may have more appeal to those with tighter budgets (and there will soon be a lot more people with tight budgets, certainly by the end of this year). Anyway, the two new additions are simple sketches; one of an evening sky and the other a mountain landscape.
April 22nd. From here on, I've decided to take time out until early June. There is a lot going on in life, both on the personal front and further afield; too much in fact to allow for my usual concentrated efforts. I will not be completing any more larger canvas-works for sale, for the time being....and then we'll be into the summer months. Probably the occasional pastel or something else on a small scale. I'll still keep this newspage updated, however, when and if there is something of interest.
April 16th. Four canvas paintings completed in four weeks, with another two under construction.... I'm heading into my pastel-box for a short while, which is a useful exercise for developing ideas for new paintings. I seem to have not fulfilled my earlier quest of doing some smaller works; sometimes this happens, the paintings take off on their own and agendas go out the window. April is, however, still rather cold; the sunshine is bright but sitting outdoors is not a comfortable task. My digital camera is out of action until the weekend, when I will be off to get new rechargeable batteries for it; the first set of Ni-MHs has now completely died, incapable of holding their charge. Well, they are five years old; that's not too bad, I guess.
April 12th. Another painting now finished and online; something to please those who like sparkly paintings; "Exodus", a semi-abstract painting of dandelion clocks.
April 7th. New painting "Wildflower Sands" now online in the main paintings gallery.
April 6th. I also have two other new paintings in progress, both acrylic. I hope that one of them will be finished over the next five days or so.
March 28th. I shall not be adding any updates between now and the end of the Easter period. At the moment I have a couple of small oil paintings in progress; both are a bit experimental, so they aren't going to be rushed along. Unfortunately I have had to abandon the oil painting of three poppies, which has appeared on the paintings page; I discovered a weakness in the canvas material that was forming a bulge with a hole in it. This rarely happens, but it was easier to call time on a half-finished piece. I may start a similar piece at a later date.
March 24th. Completed "The Morning Tree" yesterday, and it is now online.
March 23rd. Another 20" x 8" painting is in progress. I hope to be completed before the end of the week.
March 20th. Finally spotted a daffodil out in flower, in the neighbouring village. Everything is very, very slow. I have one pansy to look at, in my pots near the front door, along with a small group of blue primulas; and that's about it. This past week I have been stapling up new canvas on old stretcher-bars; I cannot decide what to paint next, which is rather paralysing. Hopefully I shall shake that feeling off, this coming week.
March 12th. "Golden Evening" now online.
March 10th. I should have a small 20" x 8" canvas completed over the next few days; simple landscape with flowers. Bad headaches slowing progress on this at the moment. It will be one of several ideas that I have for some smaller, landscape-format pictures.
March 3rd. Following a strong push-on with painting during the last two days, I have now completed the current acrylic work (all bar a few minor lines and dots), and it is now online, on the main paintings page; featuring white calla lilies. This one really started to paint itself yesterday and I was pleased with the overall flower shapes and colour. Anyone expecting or hoping to see paintings of spring flowers here might have a little longer to wait.....because Spring has not yet arrived. This time last year I had daffodils out in flower during the first week of March, but this year I am lucky to have even the leaves above ground. My garden faces north, which doesn't help a lot. Even the local garden centre doesn't have anything very exciting to look at yet. We must therefore wait a while.
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